It looks like this proposal would only affect KDE, should it go through. Other
desktops could potentially continue to support X11, at least until they find
that too difficult.
Personally I want to stay with KDE, and because of my multi-monitor setup
Wayland is not an option. I'll have to see what makes the most sense for me
should this change be approved.
Steve
On 9/13/23 12:29 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
That is potentially unfortunate. It is unclear from the Fedora proposal
whether this is just dropping X11 support for Plasma or dropping X11 support
for the entire distribution.
If it is only dropping it for Plasma but still packaging it for users to
install, then this is fine. We will just continue to recommend that Fedora
users install X11 and use a desktop WM that supports it.
If Fedora does decide to drop all X11 support, we will probably be forced to
drop Fedora from our list of supported distributions. Since this will create
bugs that the KiCad team cannot fix, it doesn't make sense to continue directly
supporting it. Of course, packaging could still happen and KiCad could still
be used under emulation but we'd stop recommending it as a viable option.
Seth
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:20 AM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There is a proposed change for Fedora 40 [1] where the proposal is to
upgrade KDE to version 6, and exclusively support wayland, dropping all support
for X11.
I've posted to the development list [2] expressing my concerns. At the
moment, dropping X11 is just a proposal, but it seems likely to happen at some
point, so I wanted to make the KiCad dev team aware of the possibilities.
Steve
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/I3O6DZCT6WFGF5SQ2IPJSYAVBGZ3N47U/
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/I3O6DZCT6WFGF5SQ2IPJSYAVBGZ3N47U/>
[2]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7VBJCMY3OLWMTFY4KNYYCTODLXBNDABZ/
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7VBJCMY3OLWMTFY4KNYYCTODLXBNDABZ/>
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